Radio: The Red Network

In Moscow, a 17-inch TV set costs less than a new suit of clothes. The
catch: a new suit is priced at 1,600 rubles ($400), some $75 more than a TV set.

Even so, reports CBS News Correspondent Daniel Schorr, just back from
four months in the Soviet Union, television is "booming," and Russia
now ranks third in number of TV sets, behind the U.S. and Great
Britain. Moscow itself has 700,000 sets, and antennas bristle not only
from modern apartment buildings but even over the sagging wooden huts
in the city's outskirts. Red workers...